Name of student : Lại Thị Huyền Trà

Class : BAK9
ID : DTQ1953401010107

Chapter 9

Trade Documents and Transportation

Case 9.1. What constitutes a package under cogsa?
Case 9.2. The container revolution
Questions
1. In Case 9.1, what is the correct number of COGSA packages?
- The correct number of COGSA is 44 packages.
2. Discuss the major benefits of cargo containers
The major benefits of cargo containers:
- These standardized containers can be filled with cargo at the farm, factory,
or loading depot, sealed and taken by truck, train, or barge to a port where it
is put on board a ship.
- It greatly reduced cargo handling time (it costs much less to load and unload
containers by crane than it is to load and unload individual packages).
- Containers also elimi- nated costs associated with shore side warehouses to
protect conventional cargo from the weather.
- Export costs relating to crating, packaging, etc., as well as potential loss or
damage to cargo, is substantially reduced.
Container transportation service has many advantages, so this is one of the
popular delivery services for businesses today.

With customers:
- Containers help protect goods, minimize loss, damage or contamination.
- Reduce packaging costs and time to count goods.
- Simplify procedures in the process of domestic transportation, operating
costs for circulation.
- Container transport helps to transport large volumes of goods in one go,
ensuring delivery time or product production is not interrupted.
With carrier:
- Avoid the loss or loss of goods. Container shipping is also easy to manage
and control as each shipping container is reserved for only one customer.
- Container shipping customers mostly have fixed and long-term needs, so
they are a potential source of customers for freight companies.